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Which word is the odd one out:
seventy
brawl
clover
proper
carrot
swing
emerged
crafty
travel
sacred
stone
plunge
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Answer
Carrot.
Reasoning
Each of the other words remains a real word if you remove the first and last letter:
s-event-y
b-raw-l
c-love-r
p-rope-r
c-arro-t *
s-win-g
e-merge-d
c-raft-y
t-rave-l
s-acre-d
s-ton-e
p-lung-e
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